Exalted peripheryČale Feldman, Lada (Avtor) Zajec, Urška (Prevajalec povzetka) Lero Student TheatreDubrovnikCroatiageocultural spacechronopoeticsfeminist revisionThe article analyses the intriguing geocultural and chronopolitical/poetic position of the Dubrovnik-based Studentski teatar Lero (Lero Student Theatre), founded in 1968. In the more than fifty years of its uninterrupted existence, the group has maintained firm ideological and expressive links to the progressivist and cosmopolitan European historical avant-gardes and post-avant-gardes while at the same time holding on just as firmly to Dubrovnik’s cultural heritage, literary tradition and a kind of isolated nostalgia for the times when this city was an independent state and a thriving cultural centre of southeastern Europe. The latter, highly aestheticised and oneiric tendency in Lero’s poetics, staged in an all-female cast, has crystallised more and more over the last thirty years under the direction of Davor Mojaš, clashing bizarrely with the more subversive aspects of his avant-garde strategies and a kind of melancholic feminist politics of history. Lero Student Theatre thus represents a confusing case of a relatively long-lived, internationally recognised and yet deliberately peripheral artistic project that demands its own interpretative framework and even defies the logic of local reproduction of the centre-periphery model.20252026-02-06 07:49:01Neznano179140sl